[Haskell-cafe] On Markdown in Haddock and why it's not going to happen

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

On 31/08/13 16:20, Carter Schonwald wrote:
> Is there an up todate copy of the haddock manual online anywhere?
> 
No. You can build your own documentation. In Haddock directory, go into
‘doc’ and read the README on how to build it. That is also outdated
however: for example, it doesn't provide information about the image
syntax (<<image>>).

New documentation will be written soon as the stuff I have been doing
added and changed quite a bit. This will most likely come out before any
actual release is made because I'd like to include a small guideline on
migrating your docs to the new version. Nothing big should break and in
huge majority of cases you shouldn't need to do anything but there are a
few quirks that are gone that might change how your things look under
some cases (mostly in cases of ill-formed docs).
> On Saturday, August 31, 2013, Omari Norman wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings café,
>>>
>>> Perhaps some saddening news for Markdown fans out there. As you might
>>> remember, there was a fair amount of push for having Markdown as an
>>> alternate syntax for Haddock.
>>>
>>>
>> This is a little off-topic, but the Haddock website apparently is years
>> out of date.
>>
>> http://www.haskell.org/haddock/
>>
>> says the latest version is 2.8.0 released in September 2010, but
>> apparently I have 2.13.2 on my machine.
>>
The latest stable is indeed 2.13.2. Hopefully this will be updated
fairly soon, AFAIK there was some miscommunication on who got the write
permissions or something but I might just be misremembering.


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Mateusz K.